Reply codes in the smtp-ssl draft
"Jeff Stephenson (Exchange)" <[email protected]> Wed, 14 May 1997 10:04:09 -0700
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The 554 reply code in the draft, if it really is to be an indication of a temporary condition, should be changed to something like 453. The '5' prefix indicates a permanent failure which will not succeed on retry, whereas the '4' prefix indicates a temporary condition. The 560 reply code, as has been pointed out over on the ietf-smtp list, is also probably not appropriate. Perhaps 555 would be a better choice. Even better, perhaps it's time to come up with some codes which mean "here's the general category of response - for more information, check out the enhanced status code per RFC 1893 and RFC 2034." -- jeff